2008 Regular Session
Foster Care
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 25
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Child Welfare - Permanency Planning and Interstate Placement of Foster Children
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Jones, Branch, Burns, Dumais, Gaines, Haynes, Hecht, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, and F. Turner
- Entitled
- Education - Children in Informal Kinship Care Relationships
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
HB 248
Status as of February 12, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Branch, Eckardt, Haynes, James, Jones, and Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Residential Child Care Programs - Behavior Management Intervention
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Departmental - Public Safety and Correctional Services)
- Entitled
- Family Law - Emergency Placement of Children - Criminal History Records Checks
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Departmental - Juvenile Services)
- Entitled
- Juvenile Law - Child in Need of Supervision and Delinquency Proceedings - Permanency Plans
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Taylor, Kaiser, Montgomery, and Stukes
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Aunt Hattie's Place
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Glenn, Anderson, Conaway, Hammen, Harrison, Haynes, Kirk, McHale, Robinson, Stukes, and Tarrant
- Entitled
- Task Force to Study the Placement of Vulnerable Children
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Jones, Aumann, Branch, Bronrott, G. Clagett, DeBoy, Eckardt, Gaines, Griffith, Gutierrez, Haynes, Hecht, Heller, Hubbard, James, Lafferty, Mizeur, Morhaim, Murphy, Nathan-Pulliam, Robinson, Rudolph, Stocksdale, F. Turner, Weldon, and Wood
- Entitled
- Family Law - Foster Care - Payment Rates
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Haddaway, Bartlett, Cane, Eckardt, Elmore, Mathias, McComas, Rudolph, Shank, Smigiel, Sossi, and Stocksdale
- Entitled
- State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Foster Parents - Eligibility to Participate
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Haddaway, Bates, Cane, Dwyer, Eckardt, Elmore, Frank, George, Mathias, McComas, Myers, Norman, O'Donnell, Rudolph, Schuh, Shank, Smigiel, Sossi, Stocksdale, Stull, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Foster Parents
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Appropriations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Juvenile Services)
- Entitled
- Juvenile Services - College Tuition Waiver for Committed Youth
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stocksdale, McDonough, Shewell, and Stukes
- Entitled
- Education - Foster Child Incentive Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Beidle, Bronrott, Carr, Elmore, Lee, Mizeur, O'Donnell, Simmons, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Children in Need of Assistance - Custody Determinations - Prohibition Against Consideration of Disabilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Murphy, Glenn, Hucker, Mizeur, Nathan-Pulliam, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Social Services Administration - Kinship Care Navigator
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
HB 1406
Status as of April 3, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Mizeur, Murphy, Benson, Donoghue, Elliott, Gutierrez, Hixson, Howard, Hubbard, Hucker, Ivey, Kipke, Kullen, Lafferty, McIntosh, Montgomery, Nathan-Pulliam, Pena-Melnyk, Reznik, Riley, Stein, Tarrant, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Foster Kids Coverage Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee (By Request - Maryland Judicial Conference)
- Entitled
- Child Welfare - Permanency Planning and Interstate Placement of Foster Children
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Colburn, Conway, Della, Exum, Madaleno, McFadden, Pinsky, Pugh, Raskin, Rosapepe, and Stone
- Entitled
- Education - Children in Informal Kinship Care Relationships
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Human Resources)
- Entitled
- Family Law - Social Services Administration - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Appropriations
SB 240
Status as of February 25, 2008: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Currie, Della, and Jones
- Entitled
- Residential Child Care Programs - Behavior Management Intervention
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kramer
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Aunt Hattie's Place
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kasemeyer
- Entitled
- Family Law - Foster Care - Payment Rates
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Gladden
- Entitled
- Children in Need of Assistance - Custody Determinations - Prohibition Against Consideration of Disabilities
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Colburn
- Entitled
- Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Foster Parents
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Colburn
- Entitled
- State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Foster Parents - Eligibility to Participate
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
SB 704
Status as of March 19, 2008: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Zirkin
- Entitled
- Human Services - Residential Child Care Facilities - Report Cards
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
